Q1 statistics show the most serious crimes in Timmins, which trends downwards

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The Timmins police service has published statistical information for the first quarter of 2025, which indicates that some serious crimes, while it is serious, tends downwards, but there are still some important areas of concern.

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The deputy boss Darren Dinel, who prepared the report, spoke about some of the numbers within the Timmin Police Services Board on Thursday.

“What we still notice when we monitor some of our indicators continues to decrease our violent crime,” he said.

Compared to the first quarter of 2024, violent crime has decreased by 13.4 percent, the crime of ownership decreased by 2.4 percent and the overall calls from the police decreased by 3.8 percent.

“In general, these are good indicators for us and the results after seeing the trend in 2024, our crime rates decreased at this time and continued in 2025,” said Dinel.

“What we attribute a lot of it is how our numbers and our staff recording appear, and when we use them in certain areas such as targeted enforcement and compliance reviews and events for non -profit services.

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“Our engagement pieces in our officials in which they create services continue to increase.

“Here too it is a small snapshot. It is the first quarter, but the trends continue to look optimistic.”

Dinel then noticed that there was a trend that is a persistent problem.

“However, our retail crimes continue to rise and 20 percent, which recorded significant increases in 2024, continues to increase,” he said.

Chief Sydney Lecky said, although it was positive that the Timmin's police service receives fewer calls regarding weapons and breaking and occurs, the theft is on the rise.

“While other crime of ownership tends down, it is still the theft of the retail trade that drives the bus,” he said.

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